Today marked the day that I officially started Alan's school work here at home.We are starting with the theme "all about me" and made a book that included his name, his age, the color of his eyes and hair, the colors of his shirt and pants, and the number of hands, feet, eyes, and ears he has (2). The last page we did was picking "this or that" pertaining to him, so the choices were "girl or boy", "sad or happy" (he picked sad.  I think it is just because he seems to be more fascinated with sad faces for whatever reason), and (age) one or three. He was proud when I helped him hold up three fingers and he managed to do it himself after I showed him. :)

We also are doing the letter A sound for the whole week, so now he's going around saying, "a, a, apple." :) We tried practicing drawing and tracing the letter a. He likes tracing the raised flashcards with his finger, but is having a lot of difficulty tracing letters with a writing utensil so far.

 We also need to work on circling a picture better, because he doesn't get this concept. He also doesn't get that when gluing something, like we did in the book today, he shouldn't put the pictures upside down or overlap them with another image, so we can't see the other image. But this is all okay, because today was his first experience with us doing something like this, and he's only been 3 for a month now.

The best part is that he was so proud of himself after he completed those book pages, and I was so proud that whenever I asked him his name, he said, "Alan!" which is a HUGE accomplishment for him. I'm so happy he finally understands name. He also responded that he was three today, which was also a first, so I am so happy. The other big accomplishment of the day was that I asked him, "are you a girl or a boy?" and he said "boy", then he said, "you a girl, Mama". He understands opposites like this quite well, so I was happy that he indicated that I was a girl, and he was a boy, because in the past, he's called me a boy. :P

I will post the photos of the pages of the book we made soon!

Here is the video we watched today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xChg1vBZVuo&feature=my_liked_videos&list=LL7ApVFcuKxx_U3fahWhrLDA